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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From insideHPC
Bright Computing Powers HPC Cluster at Oldenburg University
Today Bright Computing announced that Oldenburg University in Germany has once again chosen to renew its license agreement with Bright Computing. "There were three...
From Computational Complexity
Ideal courses for a comp sci dept/I'm glad we don't do it
I once heard it said: In our data structures course we read Knuth and ignore the proofs In our algorithms course we read Knuth and ignore the code. And indeed...
From insideHPC
Datacenter Efficiencies Through Innovative Cooling
Datacenters that are designed for High Performance Computing (HPC) applications are more difficult to design and construct than those that are designed for more...
From Phys.org Technology News
Typing while driving could be more safe with simple text entry technique
A combination of a head-up display and the keypad familiar to us from mobiles in the 2000s significantly improved the performance of drivers who were texting while...
From Schneier on Security
Murder Is a Relatively Recent Evolutionary Strategy
Interesting research in Nature. The article is behind a paywall, but here are five summaries of the research....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cultural Differences in Chatbots
Microsoft chatbots: Sweet XiaoIce vs foul-mouthed TayCultural differences, eh? .... by Katyanna QuachAI chatbots can act like social experiments, offering a glimpse...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive AI and Ad Agencies
In AdAge: Good thoughts, but how to make it work is still very complicated.A.I. and Ad Agencies: Bringing Cognitive Intelligence to Clients By Jason Jercinovic...
From insideHPC
NVLink Speeds Deep Learning on New OpenPOWER Servers
Over at the IBM System Blog, Sumit Gupta writes that the company's new IBM Power System 822LC with Nvidia Tesla P100 GPUs is already demonstrating impressive performance...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A case study in the performance cost of abstraction (C++’s std::shuffle)
Statisticians and machine-learning experts sometimes need to shuffle data quickly. There is one standard and simple algorithm to shuffle an array, the so-called...
From The Eponymous Pickle
60 Minutes on AI
Last nights's 60 Minutes spent about thirty minutes on AI. Watson got a good chunk of the coverage with Cancer diagnosis. Also Carnegie Mellon being Innovative...
From insideHPC
XSEDE Awards Supercomputer Time to 155 Research Teams
Last week, XSEDE announced it has awarded more than $16M worth of compute resources to 155 research projects. This is the first cohort of allocations awardees after...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Siren Servers Anticipating Social Uprisings
Seems a fairly obvious application. Track social activity to determine potential social upheavals. False positive linking to specific process may be key to its...
From insideHPC
High Performance Interconnects: Assessment & Rankings
In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference, Dan Olds from OrionX discusses the High Performance Interconnect (HPI) market landscape, plus provides...
From Schneier on Security
Security Economics of the Internet of Things
Brian Krebs is a popular reporter on the cybersecurity beat. He regularly exposes cybercriminals and their tactics, and consequently is regularly a target of their...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 10 October 2016
It is Columbus Day in New Hampshire. Or as my family likes to say “Leif Landed First Day.” I’ve been enjoying visiting the amazing fall foliage in northern NewDesperately...
From insideHPC
EUDAT Renews European Data Infrastructure for Research
Today EUDAT, the pan European collaborative data infrastructure announced that 16 major European research organizations and datacenters have signed an agreement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Operational Excellence and Data Viz
Unlocking Operational Excellence with Data Visualization and Analytics by Robert GolightlyOperational excellence is a major priority for the process manufacturing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spreadsheets
In the HBR: An Ode to the Underappreciated Spreadsheet by Alexandra SamuelI used to teach accountants to use early spreadsheets, an example of where you could...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Security Concerns for Augmented Reality
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the issue of security for Augmented Reality and IoT. Now that every device in our lives is getting connected to...
From The Eponymous Pickle